Terry Hands obituary
Artistic director of the RSC, who co-founded the Liverpool Everyman Theatre and revived the Clwyd Theatr Cymru. Terry Hands, who has died aged 79, spent more time with and did … Continue reading
Lyn Gardner: Every playwright – even Alan Bennett – needs a champion
Peter Hall was once at a party where a woman collared him and said: “What would poor Samuel Beckett’s career have been like if Waiting for Godot hadn’t landed on … Continue reading
Archive Review • THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY • Rose Theatre, Kingston [tour] • 2008
Peter Hall’s production of The Portrait of a Lady has arrived at The Rose Theatre Kingston, heralding a season of Hall-directed productions all set to transfer from the Theatre Royal Bath. This … Continue reading
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Archive Interview • DAN STEVENS • Hay Fever • 2006
Dan Stevens is hot property at the moment. The dashing twenty-three-year-old Cambridge graduate has already notched up professional credits with Sam West and Peter Hall and is currently performing in … Continue reading
Quote • LAURENCE OLIVIER CENTENARY • 2007
“I found him technically extraordinary. It was an awesome experience to be on the same stage with him, and sometimes I found it frightening.” Billie Whitelaw “That was amazing, to … Continue reading
Shakespeare 400: Archive Interview • MICHAEL PENNINGTON • Sweet William • 2007
Michael Pennington is bringing his superb one-man show, Sweet William to the Little Angel Theatre, Islington, London this August. In it, Pennington explores his relationship with the writer with whom … Continue reading
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Archive Review • WHERE THERE’S A WILL • Richmond Theatre [tour] • 2003
The French have always believed that a little sexual shenanigans outside marriage is a Frenchman’s right. Georges Feydeau made exquisite use of this accepted double standard in his farces one … Continue reading
Archive Interview • RONALD PICKUP • Look Back in Anger • 2006
Whichever way you look at it, Ronald Pickup’s credits are extensive. In Peter Hall’s Bath season programme, his biog for Look Back in Anger runs to two columns. Google him … Continue reading
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Archive Review • BETRAYAL • Duchess Theatre • 2003
This dim, inert and unsexy production of Pinter’s famous and frequently revived play from 1978, is unfit for the West End Theatre and a disappointment after the same company’s widely … Continue reading
Archive Interview • IAN RICHARDSON • Part 3 • 2006
Shakespeare to le Carré In the third part of my interview with Ian Richardson, he talks further on the disparity of opinion between drama critics and audiences, and about never … Continue reading
Archive Interview • IAN RICHARDSON • Part I • 2006
The Creeper and the Critics “As you’ve probably noticed, I just have to be given a little cube of sugar like a racehorse and I go,” says Ian Richardson twenty … Continue reading
Archive Interview • ALAN DOBIE • Waiting for Godot • 2005
While everyone around me was drawn to the Pierre Bezuhov of Anthony Hopkins in Jack Pullman’s masterly dramatisation of Tolstoy’s War and Peace for the BBC in 1972, I was … Continue reading
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